diff --git a/ipaserver/install/cainstance.py b/ipaserver/install/cainstance.py
index 6c84e928b..cc7b03046 100644
--- a/ipaserver/install/cainstance.py
+++ b/ipaserver/install/cainstance.py
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ import syslog
 import time
 import tempfile
 from configparser import RawConfigParser
+from pkg_resources import parse_version
 
 from ipalib import api
 from ipalib import x509
@@ -428,7 +429,8 @@ class CAInstance(DogtagInstance):
             if promote:
                 self.step("destroying installation admin user",
                           self.teardown_admin)
-            self.step("deploying ACME service", self.setup_acme)
+            if minimum_acme_support():
+                self.step("deploying ACME service", self.setup_acme)
             # Materialize config changes and new ACLs
             self.step("starting certificate server instance",
                       self.start_instance)
@@ -768,11 +770,10 @@ class CAInstance(DogtagInstance):
             self.basedn)
         conn.add_entry_to_group(user_dn, group_dn, 'uniqueMember')
 
-        group_dn = DN(('cn', ACME_AGENT_GROUP), ('ou', 'groups'),
-                      self.basedn)
-        conn.add_entry_to_group(user_dn, group_dn, 'uniqueMember')
-
-        conn.disconnect()
+        if minimum_acme_support():
+            group_dn = DN(('cn', ACME_AGENT_GROUP), ('ou', 'groups'),
+                          self.basedn)
+            conn.add_entry_to_group(user_dn, group_dn, 'uniqueMember')
 
     def __get_ca_chain(self):
         try:
@@ -1485,6 +1486,9 @@ class CAInstance(DogtagInstance):
             logger.debug('ACME service is already deployed')
             return False
 
+        if not minimum_acme_support():
+            return False
+
         self._ldap_mod('/usr/share/pki/acme/database/ds/schema.ldif')
 
         configure_acme_acls()
@@ -1727,6 +1731,33 @@ def ensure_lightweight_cas_container():
     )
 
 
+def minimum_acme_support(data=None):
+    """
+    ACME with global enable/disable is required.
+
+    This first shipped in dogtag version 10.10.0.
+
+    Parse the version string to determine if the minimum version
+    is met. If parsing fails return False.
+
+    :param: data: The string value to parse for version. Defaults to
+                  reading from the filesystem.
+    """
+    if not data:
+        with open('/usr/share/pki/VERSION', 'r') as fd:
+            data = fd.read()
+
+    groups = re.match(r'.*\nSpecification-Version: ([\d+\.]*)\n.*', data)
+    if groups:
+        version_string = groups.groups(0)[0]
+        minimum_version = parse_version('10.10.0')
+
+        return parse_version(version_string) >= minimum_version
+    else:
+        logger.debug('Unable to parse version from %s', data)
+        return False
+
+
 def ensure_acme_containers():
     """
     Create the ACME container objects under ou=acme,o=ipaca if
diff --git a/ipatests/test_integration/test_acme.py b/ipatests/test_integration/test_acme.py
index 9185aba81..9d06dd035 100644
--- a/ipatests/test_integration/test_acme.py
+++ b/ipatests/test_integration/test_acme.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ from ipalib.constants import IPA_CA_RECORD
 from ipatests.test_integration.base import IntegrationTest
 from ipatests.pytest_ipa.integration import tasks
 from ipaplatform.osinfo import osinfo
+from ipaserver.install import cainstance
 
 
 # RHEL does not have certbot.  EPEL's version is broken with
@@ -26,6 +27,8 @@ skip_mod_md_tests = osinfo.id not in ['rhel','fedora',]
 CERTBOT_DNS_IPA_SCRIPT = '/usr/libexec/ipa/acme/certbot-dns-ipa'
 
 
+@pytest.mark.skipif(not cainstance.minimum_acme_support(),
+                    reason="does not provide ACME")
 class TestACME(IntegrationTest):
     """
     Test the FreeIPA ACME service by using ACME clients on a FreeIPA client.